The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• How Serious? … Is your collaborative approach supported by management, or does it just have to make do? If the latter, there are looming problems. “The point is that real and hard decisions will need to be made by people in leadership positions. They will have to answer the question “Are we in this for the long run, or not”.” Collaborage
• Information vs. Knowledge … Daryl sees danger ahead in 2.0 in the enterprise. “Adopting these new collaborative and social tools will require a paradigm shift from the current thinking. Let me explain … In my notes, I wrote that there seemed to be a real dichotomy in the language being used. On the one hand speakers when describing their Intranets were talking about standards, compliance, custodians, approval, reviews, structured, efficiency, control, and ‘single source of truth’. Yet on the other hand, they mused that intranets were about ‘people, people, people’ and that they were trying to improve collaboration, increase knowledge sharing and foster networks. I put this down to what appears to be a lack of or poor understanding about the differences between information and knowledge.” Anecdote

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Attensa Feed Server Appliance … “Attensa, Inc., the leading developer of RSS software for businesses, today introduced a virtual appliance version of the Attensa Feed Server. The new version of the Attensa Feed Server is a virtual appliance that provides enterprise customers with centralized administration, routing, security, search, synchronization, analytics and reporting for enterprise-wide RSS coordination. It brings together all of the tools IT administrators, team leaders and users need to manage and streamline the delivery of critical business information using web feeds behind the firewall.” Available immediately. Attensa
• DEMOfall on Collaboration … Marc provides an overview of the collaboration tools shown at DEMO, including Tungle, Vello, Tubes Network, YuuGuu and others. Marc Orchant

Insights on Being Productive and Effective as an Individual

• Escape Time Poverty … (1) increase the quality of “now time”, (2) be more deliberate in what you do, (3) make decisions about what you will and won’t do, and (4) embrace global prioritization. Scott Young
• 8 Writing Tips … (1) make writing a priority, (2) flesh out the writing in advance, (3) write the synopsis first, (6) have a dedicated writing space, and (8) don’t give up, among others. InfoMean
• Reduce Priorities … “I wish I had data to prove it, but I will say that I’ve seen it over and over again for 30-some years: in business planning, three to five priorities work, and 10 or 20 priorities doesn’t work. In fact, it’s a classic inverse relationship: the more priorities, the less likelihood of implementation.” Tim Berry
• Stop … Stop doing something you are doing that you no longer want to do. Lisa Haneberg